The Pirate Bay Hijacks Visitors CPUs to Mine Virtual Currency

The Pirate Bay one of the world’s most popular websites for torrent links to pirated content. The website have been accused of stealing users hardware for mining virtual coins in the past but it seems that the trend is still going on.

Many Pirate Bay visitors have recently detected that the website Hijacks your system’s when giving a torrent link of a file and later uses the victims processor for mining coins and many inexperienced visitors won’t even realize what’s happening, according to the JavaScript code. Virtual Currency mining have gained momentum in the recent past months causing the Graphics Card prices go sky high.

TorrentFreak suggest that The Pirate Bay was testing a new feature for earning money from Monero Mining and replacing ads, According to some reports the users witness slow performance due to increase in CPU usage. But the good news is that the users can block their system from mining by changing browser settings and user’s can also avoid this feature enabling extensions such as ad-blockers.

Previously, UTorrent was also accused of stealing user’s system for mining virtual currency without user’s knowledge.

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